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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Killing English

I am posting some Jokes regarding Horror English at some Schools.
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Principal to student..." I saw u yesterday rotating near girl’s hostel pulling cigarette...? "

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Class teacher once said:” pick up the paper and fall in the dustbin!!!"

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Once Hindi teacher said...."I’m going out of the world to America...”

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".DON'T TRY TO TALK IN FRONT OF MY BACK...”

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dont..laugh at the back benches...otherwise teeth and all will be fallen down.....

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It was very hot in the afternoon when the teacher entered... She tried to switch the fan on, but there was some problem.

and then she said " why is fan not oning"
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teacher in a furious mood... "write down ur name and father of ur name!!"

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"shhh... quiet... the principal is revolving around college"

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My manager started like this "Hi, I am Madhu, Married with two kids"

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"I'll illustrate what i have in my mind" said the professor and erased the board

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"will u hang that calendar or else I’ll HANG MYSELF"

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LIBRARIAN SCOLDE ," IF U WILL TALK AGAIN , I WILL KNEEL DOWN OUTSIDE"

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Chemistry HOD comes and tells us... "My aim is to study my son and marry my daughter"

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Tomorrow call ur parents especially mother and father

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"Why are you looking at the monkeys outside when I am in the class?!"

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Lab assistant said this when my friend wrote wrong code... "I understand. You understand. Computer how understand??

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Seeing the principal passing by, the teacher told the noisy class... "Keep quiet, the principal has passed away"

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Content Courtesy: Friends

Customers are Gods

In the business world, this is the mantra, please remember"CUSTOMERS ARE GODS". I was involved in various automobile customer research surveys ranging from Scooters to High end luxury cars. But one thing what i saw in common is customer is customer, Whether he buys a pen or plane his expectations are the same. I republish some of the best quotes on customer service i have come across published by eminent personalities or survey and research agencies.

1.Only two percent of customers complain,while thirty four percent of all dissatisfied customers penalized the manufacturer by quietly switching the brands.
-The study by the AC Neilson company

2.Sixty one percent of the consumers polled say their pre-purchase decisions were most influenced by the opinions of their friends, i.e, the importance of word of mouth.
- General Electric study, The information challenge.

3. The answer is yes..now what is the question?
Anonymous-waiter at a restaurant.
4. By the way customers Act, you would think they own this company. And, in a way, they do!

5. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
- George washington.
6. Customers don't care about what you know, until they know that you care.
- Digital Equipment department, Customer service department.
7. When you don't know what else to do, listen to your customers.
- Eric schmidt, Novell CEO
8. Customers do not buy products or services so much as they buy expectations.
- Ted Levitt, The marketing imagination.
9. The insurance policies issued by the Agents of the companies are same. What is different are the agents.
- The Author,God Created U.

Now finally, the best one of the lot....

10. If we always do, what we always did, we will always get what we always got.
- Rick Lowry, Tru-Serv

Thank you.

Monday, February 22, 2010

School Children alias Coolies

Education today is felt as a burden. I always used to wonder whether our education system is designed to equip the children to face the challenges of life or make them future Hamalis for sure. I struggled to lift the baggage of my younger son studying second class. Added to the luggage he has skate boards as additional passenger luggage apart from his food baggage. May be in future, we may have to hire different class of transportation, one for carrying the children other for carrying their baggage. Seperate logistics team working out at the school for making the luggage err..baggage to the right child.

Recently I saw a newspaper report that Kendriya vidyalayas have set weight limits on school baggage. As per the load-shedding policy for classes I and II the baggage should not weigh more than 2 kgs. For classes III and IV the weight is restricted to 3 kgs. For those studying from V to VIII the weight should not exceed 4kgs. The upper limit for IX and X has been set at 6Kgs. The circular further states that they will gradually move to a restriction of 1 Kg weight maximum a child can carry. Nice that atleast Kendriya vidyalayas have taken a serious approach. Our Honourable Minister for HRD Mr.Kapil sibal should also address this for all schools in the country.

Why doesn't schools have a good storage system in their class room itself wherein they keep each child's books in a safe locker?

One more interesting article today I read in Newspaper is that government is seriously thinking on including sports as 7th subject for all classes and it will be implemented in Government schools initially. Wonderful thought and it is highly required for present day generation.

To sum up, I can visualize that soon there will be days where children will shun their traditional books and carry note books(Laptops) to schools. When corporates are working on paperless offices why not paperless school bags for children?

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Formula 1 race Pitstop

Most of us who love excitement definitely must have watched Formula 1 racing. It may look simple for an amateur racing enthusiast that they may dream to win the race if they have a best roaring engines zooming past the lanes. However, there is lot of perfection and practice required for competing in Formula 1 racing. One of the most important aspect of Formula 1 racing is pit stop.

What is pit stop?

The pit stop is an earmarked place for a racer to stop for few moments to change tyres and refuel the car and continue.

Any guess what is the time allowed? It is only 7 seconds to complete the whole maintenance exercise. A pit stop, though is never as easy as it looks. The job in the pits is one of the most toughest in the world of formula 1 racing.

Steps involved:

1.The driver enters the pitlane at full speed and reduces it to a speed limit of 80kms/hr and brings the car to a halt at the pit. The fuel filler flap automatically pops open. The driver sets his vehicle in nuetral and keeps his foot on the brake so that the wheels dont turn.

2. The car is lifted up on its jacks and mechanics start removing the wheels. And the fuel is pumped into the car.

3. All the four wheels have been changed,the car is lowered to the ground and the last fuel is pumped in, the driver is shown a board by Lollipop telling him to engage the gear.

4. The fuel hose is detached and the car is ready to go.

Team involved:

1. Lollipop man - Team leader who waves the card.

2. Front jack and rear jack specialists- To lift the car.

3. Wheel changing crew - For Each wheel there will be 2-3 members

4. Refuellers - The refueller has two assisting crew. The rig delivers 12 litres of high octane fuel per second. The fuel pipe will be too heavy and requires atleast two members to lift.

5. Fire crew - overseeing these operations are 2 fire extinguishing crew members holding the pipes and ready to blast the water in case the car catches fire during refuelling.

6. Other crew - For doing cleaning debris and small repairs

Now all this action has to be completed in precisely 7 seconds.. Yes just 7 seconds.
Being part of the pit crew is one of the exciting jobs in a racing team. It is a potentially hazardous job. The mechanics don't get any risk allowance seperately and it is almost impossible for them to find life insurance.

The whole sequence is practised a minimum 25-30 times a day and especially on racing days many more times.

The pit-stop crew can make or break a race. They are crucial to the whole race for a driver.

Airliners have benchmarked their practise of housekeeping and refuelling the aircrafts, repairs etc., on seeing the Formula 1 racing pit stop. The down time of an aircraft from destination to destination will be very small and within the available time they need to finish all the maintenance without any flaw.

Life is also a race and there are pitstops, the pitstops refuels the car and gives the much needed break for the driver, even it is just for seconds.

Our friends, family members are pitstops for every human being. The race goes on...

Saturday, February 13, 2010

who loves "bandh"?

Hyderabadis are now terrorised with the word "Bandh". Now a days every other day there is bandh or rallies happening. It has become common these days for political parties to call for bandhs and rallies. These agitations instead of helping for the cause actually have negative impact on the subject for which it is called for. Take T-Cause, almost an academic year of the students in A.P especially in Hyderabad is virtually lost and repeated bandh calls only increase hatred than sympathy. Apart from visible damage to properties, it indirectly affects the economy of the region or state where such agitations are held. Imagine a person has to travel to another place for attending an interview or writing an academic exam or visiting a marraige or even hospital will not be possible due to this. The person/people who lost their golden opportunities because of bandh will only curse the system and the organisers. Recently the Honorable High court has held that wherever properties are damaged or destroyed by people in support of the strike, the amounts to the extent of the damage done should be collected from such people who were directly involved and from the political parties who called for it. It is indeed an excellent direction by the Honorable court. The impact of recent bandhs in A.P was that the state transportation has hiked all the fares including the basic fares of city travel. Who is the loser and who is the gainer? Our country is known for Non-violence and there are several methods to show our protest. Only people who enjoy bandh will be school kids so that they can play all around.

There were news paper reports that in vijayawada and other places where the bandh call was continuous for certain period, Relatives of the dead in the hospital were unable to collect the dead bodies and mortuaries were full with such bodies due to lack of transportation. If Telangana is formed, there will be no other state in South which will have two states with same linguistic except Hindi speaking northern states. I am born and brought up in Hyderabad and i am supporting the cause of telangana. I personally feel Telangana is certainly neglected and exploited and the best way of undoing it is having two seperate assemblies within hyderabad like the singapore model. The local body will be specific for Telangana development and the general assembly for entire A.P. This way the collective bargaining power of Andhra pradesh is still retained and the cause of Telangana is also met. A fight between the brothers is advantage for the outsider.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Modern day gadgets boon or bane for children?

Kind Attention all parents having small kids!

I humbly admit that the present generation IQ is far superior than previous generations. Especially the kids below 10 years exhibit tremendous abilities in terms of handling the modern days gadgets. Even though parents may feel proud about their children being able to navigate/play with these equipments viz., mobiles, laptops, Playstations, DVD' players, desktops etc., there is a dangerous impact in terms of their mental and physical growth.

Take for example, the modern day television, thanks to Mr.J.L.Baird who has invented the idiot box and brought a revolution in terms of technology. it has its impact on all ages and genders. The never ending soap operas and the reality(unreal) shows are keeping the audiences hooked to TV's day and night. More than 200+ channels running round the clock has changed the life of a common man especially the present generation kids.

For a kid below 2 years, the doctors do not advise watching the television due to its effect on the growing brain and the tender eyes. Even for those above that age, it is not recommended to view not more than 2 hours a day. Children get easily influenced by the programs they watch. According to a recent survey, Children who are watching too much of TV had a tendency to sleep late and wake up late. They bend towards poor memory power, difficult to retain what is taught in their classes.

Now that there are so many gadgets available,children prefer to stay indoors and watch TV or play computer games or play stations, hardly end up with any physical exercise making them gain too much weight and even getting obese. It happened with my own kids glued to the TV's since we were busy in our jobs and children were left alone at home lead to early age spectacles. The resolution of TV screen and computer is so high that it impacts the vision in the longer run.

The ad campaign on Televisions has immense impact on the kids. children always think that the food or things advertised are best for them and any deprivation or resistance from parents is seen as insult to them.

Whatever children do depends on parents. They must not be given over-freedom and their pocket money size should be minimum. Encouraging savings at an early age makes children conscious about money and their availability. Book reading must be encouraged not just the school stuff, but epics and jataka tales etc., which teaches moral values and fun.

Parents must encourage children for outdoor games especially cycling,swimming are the best for growing children.

Even if children have to see the television, what content they can see and cannot is the primary duty of the parents. It was reported based on a survey that in United States on an average children below 10 years receive or send 4000 messages in a year containing porn subject.

Children and teenagers are generally curious and it is very likely that when they start searching for Nintendos or other cartoon characters online, due to incorrect spellings they land into pornographic sites. Once children are exposed to graphical adult content on TV or internet, they can never regain their innocence.

Let us not see that day when we have to start "save children from TV" campaign!!!